The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. O — Thomas Friedman

"What Biden is trying to achieve is equivalent of having a Rubics cube and trying to align all the colors on the same side"

"Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.… I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands."

"Sooner or later, Mr. Bush argued, sanctions would force Mr. Husseins generals to bring him down, and then Washington would have the best of all worlds: an iron-fisted Iraqi junta without Saddam Hussein."

"Like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation (the Serbs certainly think so), and the stakes have to be very clear: Every week you ravage Kosovo is another decade we will set your country back by pulverizing you. You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too."

"No two countries that both have a McDonalds have ever fought a war against each other.... The question raised by the McDonalds example is whether there is a tip-over point at which a country, by integrating with the global economy, opening itself up to foreign investment and empowering its consumers, permanently restricts its capacity for troublemaking and promotes gradual democratization and widening peace."

"Now weve entered Globalization 3.0, and it is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny."